Back wasn't feeling too great during the squats so i only got the required reps and also cut short the paused squats. Next day my back was really quite sore. I didn't want to do back to back workouts but my schedule meant that i wouldn't have been able to get into the gym for a few days. I thought my body could handle it, alas it couldn't. My lower back has not been great for a few weeks, but it has been getting better so now i'm going to take a few days off and then see what i can do pain free when i get back to the gym. It's annoying as i was making good progress on all my lifts. Bench i'm lifting off and pressing on my own only 2.5kgs below my 1RM. Squat is going through the roof, numerous rep PR's have been set over the last few months including a 5kgs 1RM. The same for deadlifts, excluding a new 1RM. Oh well.

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Tried some Deadlifts today, got up to 140kgs but my back wasn't liking it. Switched to a sumo stance and pulled 160kgs but again my back still wasn't happy. So I tried a few different things. Nothing to report except pin pressing 110kgs from a few inches and hitting 24 reps in my 4min 40sec pull-up test.

As of next week I'll change things up and do a program from a t-nation article. Three upper days and one lower, chest heavy program for 4 weeks which will give my back a rest.

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I've not squatted with a close and stance and high bar for over 3 years. Strength felt good, form felt very weird. Balance was the main issue, it will improve though. 4 sets of 10 was the aim, but I could just feel by back a little so I stopped. The program called for 3 sets of 8-10 reps on Rollouts but after doing them on Monday for the first time in a long time I was already sore and didn't want to end up with a pulled abdominal muscle.

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